Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others are still extant, the Graf and the decommissioned Los Angeles, at Lakehurst. Of the rest ten never left the drawing board. 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked in the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender...
...Thirty-seven-year-old Cartoonist Gene Ahern, a onetime butcher boy, began his career in 1914 at N. E. A.'s Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After...
...plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin. Last week Dr. Wood left no doubt that these gratings, with 210,000 lines in a space of seven inches, are the finest ever made...
...pleasant spoken little woman [who] has had six daughters by five different fathers. She considers that she has 'done no harm to no one and I've got to live.' " She makes a meagre living with her embroidery. Her daughters, all unmarried, have seven daughters, three sons...
...Seven students, selected for their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought, will join the Society of Fellows next September as Junior Follows. They will devote themselves to independent research and study for three years at the expense of the University...